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Whatever happened to ...? : Nature News
"Whatever happened to ...?
Nature looks back on a selection of last year's news stories to find out what happened next.
Alison Abbott , Geoff Brumfiel , Elie Dolgin , Eric Hand , Katharine Sanderson , Richard Van Noorden & Meredith Wadman
Liberia's caterpillar plague
Panic struck Liberia in early 2009, after a plague of caterpillars struck villages around the country, munching trees and leaves and polluting water supplies. By late January, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the country's president, had declared a state of emergency and appealed for international aid, while the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned of further attacks to come (see 'Halting the African armyworm')."
Largest-ever meta-analysis finds CRP is unlikely to be causal for CVD - theheart.org
"Largest-ever meta-analysis finds CRP is unlikely to be causal for CVD
December 21, 2009 | Lisa Nainggolan
Cambridge, UK - In the largest and most comprehensive meta-analysis to date looking at C-reactive-protein (CRP) levels and risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke, British researchers conclude that CRP is unlikely to be a causal factor for cardiovascular disease [1].
Although CRP concentration was linearly associated with CHD, stroke, and vascular mortality, as well as nonvascular mortality, statistical adjustment for conventional cardiovascular risk factors "resulted in considerable weakening of associations," note the scientists of the Cambridge-based Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration (ERFC), who report their findings online December 21, 2009 in the Lancet.
In an editorial accompanying the paper [2], Drs S Matthijs Boekholdt and John JP Kastelein (Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) say the UK authors "are to be commended for this impressive data set." Although the findings "add weight to the evidence of noncausality" for a role of CRP in the development of cardiovascular disease, "the debate can be resolved only by randomized trials with agents that specifically target CRP, and such compounds are currently under development," say the Dutch doctors.
Commenting on the new meta-analysis for heartwire, Dr Paul Ridker (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA), a long-time advocate of CRP and the lead investigator of the JUPITER trial, said: "Whether or not CRP is 'causal' for heart disease is neither the crucial issue at hand nor relevant for public health. What is crucial is getting international agreement that CRP identifies higher-risk individuals who would not otherwise qualify for a life-saving therapy, and then showing that such individuals clearly benefit from treatment. The new meta-analysis demonstrates the former, and JUPITER demonstrates the latter." "
GrassrootsHealth | Vitamin D Action - Vitamin D Scientists' Call to Action Statement
"We are aware of substantial scientific evidence supporting the role of vitamin D in prevention of cancer. It has been reasonably established that adequate serum vitamin D metabolite levels are associated with substantially lower incidence rates of several types of cancer, including those of the breast, colon, and ovary, and other sites.
We have concluded that the vitamin D status of most individuals in North America will need to be greatly improved for substantial reduction in incidence of cancer. Epidemiological studies have shown that higher vitamin D levels are also associated with lower risk of Type I diabetes in children and of multiple sclerosis. Several studies have found that markers of higher vitamin D levels are associated with lower incidence and severity of influenza and several other infectious diseases."
Is There Any Gout Food To Avoid?
When we look for gout food to avoid, we tend to look for low purine foods. There is some merit in this, but unless you only eat shellfish, gravy, liver, kidney, and the like, it is much more important to look at pH balance. Do it right, and not only will it help your gout, but you will become generally healthier.
I describe how alkalizing your body can help gout by making uric acid more soluble in the Prevention Section. Taking baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) works for many gout sufferers. Unfortunately, it can raise blood pressure. As about 40% of gout sufferers also have hypertension, an alternative is useful.
This is where increasing your pH level through food comes in. There is a lot of information about alkalizing diets and acid-alkaline balance. Much of this is confusing and sometimes contradictory.
Even Couch Potatoes May Have Been Born to Run - The New York Times > Health >
The apparently crucial role of running in human evolution, overlooked for the most part in previous research, is being proposed today in an article in the journal Nature by two American scientists.
While walking upright first set early human ancestors apart from their ape cousins, the scientists write, it may have been the ability to run long distances with springy step over the African savanna that influenced the transition to today's human body form.
John Lee Hooker - Goin To Louisiana
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200 Free Online Classes to Learn Anything | OEDb
A high quality education doesn't have to come at a high cost. In fact, it's possible to take classes from big names like Yale, MIT, and Tufts without ever submitting an application or paying a cent in tuition. We've compiled 200 online classes from these and other respected institutions, and you can take all of them with no strings attached.
Use doPDF To Convert Documents To PDF (Windows)
I guess I got very used to working for the man and the perks that come with it. I have had Adobe Professional on my desktop and laptop for a long time now. When I had to create a quick PDF from a word document on a client’s site - after my laptop suffered from battery drainage I had some issues.
I quickly Googled around looking for a free, easy solution. Lots of places claimed to do what I wanted but the first one that did it EASY and FREE was doPDF.
Animal Planet :: Animals A to Zoo
Welcome to AnimalPlanet.com's new online feature. We've taken all of our online content, including interactives, videos, photo galleries, fact sheets and more and placed them here for you to browse through. We think this is a great place to locate all of
Nourishing Hope for Autism
Julie Matthews has devoted her life to finding ways to heal the devastating symptoms of autism.She's an autism nutrition specialist and a Defeat Autism Now!(DAN) practitioner who has written a must-read book for parents and caregivers or anyone who deals with autism.The book,Nourishing Hope for Autism: Nutrition Intervention for Healing Our Children,deals with the diet and nutrition aspect of successfully treating autism.Matthews'fascination with biochemistry and the mechanisms of the body led her to discover that most adults and children with ASD (autistic spectrum disorders) have imbalances in their body's chemistry.
RSS 2 CMS - RSS Feeds to solid CMS content
As the name suggests it is a system that converts RSS Feeds into the content of a CMS system. In other words CMS content syndication through RSS. It is built in such a flexible way that it doesn't matter which CMS system it connects to. Settings inside th
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